{"id":593,"date":"2009-04-23T18:13:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T08:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2009-04-23T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T08:13:17","slug":"simple-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/simple-pleasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day working at home today, the first in almost two weeks, filled with many small pleasures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the spinebills on the red flowers of the pineapple sage outside the kitchen window &#8211; it flowers in autumn and through early winter, and the native birds love it;<\/li>\n<li>knitting for twenty minutes in the sunshine on the front veranda, blue fairy wrens darting in amongst nearby bushes, and a large lizard, enjoying the sunshine, watching me from just 6 feet away;<\/li>\n<li>chai tea in my favourite pottery mug, with a piece of chocolate fudge;<\/li>\n<li>a kangaroo and a wallaby, grazing in the late afternoon between the house and the small dam, while I watched from the sunroom while treadmilling;<\/li>\n<li>hanging out towels and sheets on the washing line in the sunshine &#8211; and bringing them in, with the fresh,warm sun-smell still on them;<\/li>\n<li>walking the dogs at sunset, kangaroos in the paddock, small birds settling for the night; several kookaburras laughing in the distance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_595\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595\" src=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090328sunsettrees.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset in the west paddock\" title=\"20090328sunsettrees\" width=\"478\" height=\"358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090328sunsettrees.jpg 478w, https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090328sunsettrees-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset in the west paddock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(And I still have dinner of atlantic salmon with honey &#038; mustard dressing and steamed greens to look forward to, plus (I hope) finishing the last 6 rows of the beautiful lace shawl I&#8217;m knitting this evening.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day working at home today, the first in almost two weeks, filled with many small pleasures: the spinebills on the red flowers of the pineapple sage outside the kitchen window &#8211; it flowers in autumn and through early winter, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/simple-pleasures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}